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Legal person

Meaning in law, with examples

nounCommon term

In law, legal person means: An entity, such as a company or an association, that the law treats as having its own rights and duties, separate from the people who own or run it.

In Turkish: tüzel kişi, hukuki kişi

How it is used

Used in company law, civil codes and international texts, in contrast with a 'natural person' (a human being). Also called a 'juristic person' or 'legal entity'; 'legal personality' is the status of being one.

Example sentences

  1. A limited company is a legal person, so it can sign contracts and be sued in its own name.

  2. The form asks whether the applicant is a natural or a legal person.

Common collocations

  • natural or legal person
  • legal personality
  • legal entity
  • have legal personality
  • partyEach person or organisation directly involved in a contract or a court case, such as the buyer and the seller, or the claimant and the defendant.
  • liabilityLegal responsibility for something, especially the duty to pay for harm, loss or debts; in accounting, also an amount that a company owes.
  • civil lawA legal system based mainly on written codes, used in most of continental Europe, Latin America and Turkey; also the area of law that deals with private disputes rather than crimes.
  • legalConnected with the law or the legal system; also allowed by the law, the opposite of illegal.

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